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Report: Pig Murder in the Bay Area
REPORT: Police Killings In San Francisco Bay Area Law Enforcement Related Deaths in the US: “Justifiable Homicides” and the Impacts on FamiliesSeptember 10, 2014By Peter Phillips, Diana Grant and...
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Temple University: Black Studies in White Supremacy Academia: The Case of Dr....
Temple U. and the Professor Anthony Monteiro Affair : ROMANTISING TREACHERY. 1... Tony Monteiro is one of the principal organizers of Educators for Mumia Abu Jamal, a coalition of scholars and...
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The Bay Area Celebration of the Black Arts Movement's 50th Anniversary, 2015
Dear Friends,As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Peralta College District, I invite you to join me in the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Black Arts Movement, known as the Sister of the Black...
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Parable of the Zombie Driver: Oakland's Mayor Jean Quan with Marvin X
Oakland's embattled Mayor Jean Quan with the peripatetic poet Marvin X. "As a student of Sun Ra, I believe in Mythocracy not Democracy. But we thank the Mayor for ending Operation Urban Shield in...
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New Poem by Marvin X: Rain in the Valley
Rain has come to the Central ValleyOh, rainwhere have you beenmy loverI drink your kisseslet me hold youso preciousWe thought you departed foreverwas I a terrible loverdid I abuse youwas my language...
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SOS--CALLING ALL BLACK PEOPLE: A BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT READER
"The voice of the intelligence...is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most...
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Parable of Madpoet by Marvin X
Parable of the MadpoetAnd I'm the great would-be poet. Yes. That's right! Poet. Some kind of bastard literature...all it needs is a simple knife thrust. Just let me bleed you, you loud whore, and one...
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Parable of a Happy Dope Fiend
In memory of RickRick was a happy dope fiend. He loved shooting dope in the Tenderloin of San Francisco, though he used to shoot dope in the Fillmore, but that was in the old days when the...
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Somethin' Proper: Marvin X's autobiography of a North American African Poet,...
Somethin' Proper, the Autobiography of Marvin X, from the introduction by Dr. Nathan Hare Marvin Xphoto Kamau Amen RaSomethin' Proper, the Autobiography of Marvin X, Black Bird Press, 1998from the...
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Petition for Medal of Freedom for Arturo Schomburg, father of Black History
SIGN PETITION: Medal of Freedom for Arturo SchomburgPetition bycarmen santanaRidgewood, NYPlease read my letter to Congresswoman Nydia Velasquez.My letter explains why Arturo Alfonso Schomburg's...
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Parable of Watch Out Blackie, Whitey comin' fa dat ass
There was a land where Pharaoh ruled over many slaves, using his monkey mind media and other magicians, including the Amen priests, the chief magicians whose tricknology hoodwinked and bamboozled the...
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Two/thirds of Americans don't bother to vote in US politricks myth-ritual
Republicans just won the election. President Obama doesn’t much care.By Chris Cillizza November 5 President Obama gestures as he speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on...
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Marvin X's Grand Vision for the Bay Area Celebration of the 50th Anniversary...
Marvin X, Producer In our grand vision for the Bay Area Celebration of the Black Arts Movement, we imagine a festival/conference over several days with venues in various locations depending on the...
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Oakland showing of Sun Ra's Space in the Place at Mindseed Studio
“Space is the Place”is an underground classic movie starring the late legendary musician/composer Sun Ra. Showing time: 11/21/14 7PM Fee: $7 Location : Mindseed Recording Studios 926 85th Ave, Oakland,...
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Parable of the Haters Club
There was a club for haters. All the haters from all around had membership in the haters club. And the haters all had an evil vibe or no vibe at all and they also had a bad smell that went along with...
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Note from Kim McMillon on Marvin X's play Flowers for the Trashman at...
Sonia Sanchez, Lakiba Pittman, Kim McMillon and Marvin XEarlier this year, Kim and Marvin produced a conference on the Black Arts Movement at UC Merced. Marvin X is planning a Bay Area-wide Black Arts...
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Black Bird Press reprints: I AM OSCAR GRANT and PULL YO PANTS UP
Marvin X: Eight Books in 2010Man, Marvin X writes a book a month!--Abiodun of the Last Poets If you want to learn about inspiration and motivation, don't spend all that money going to workshops and...
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Lee Hubbard interview: Marvin X Unplugged
photo Kamau Amen Ra Marvin X UnpluggedAn Interview by Lee HubbardWhile drugs and their impact have been talked about, no one has really dealt with the addiction to drugs and how it impacts a community...
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Coming in 2015: San Francisco Bay Area Black Arts Movement Celebration, 50th...
Graphics by Kalamu Chache' Many of the Black Arts Movement’s leading artists, including Ed Bullins, Nikki Giovanni, Woodie King, Haki Madhubuti, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Touré,Marvin X and Val Gray Ward,...
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The Black Arts Movement (BAM)--the Most Radical Artistic and Literary...
I think what Black Arts did was inspire a whole lot of Black people to write. Moreover, there would be no multiculturalism movement without Black Arts. Latinos, Asian Americans, and others all say they...
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